And I must admit during a SNL tribute show to the 2000's (I know, right, that was just last year, why a tribute?) but they talked about 9/11 and I was moved to tears. Who doesn't remember Mayor Giuliani and Lorne Michaels on stage, surrounded by dusty fire fighters and paramedics and police, and making a joke that we all chuckled at. It really felt like we had been waiting for permission to laugh, and now it was okay to start finding things in life to enjoy again.
It's easier to bear, but I have not forgotten.
Especially when I was looking through old photographs with my husband and we found a picture of us, with the New York skyline silhouetted behind us, the Twin Towers standing tall and proud.
No, I will not forget.
I am raising children who will not forget.
The lives lost on 9/11 and in all the battles since then will be remembered by me and mine.
I will never forget the horror of that morning, or of walking into school to get D out of his 1st grade class to come home and say goodbye to his daddy, not knowing when or if we'd see Erik again. A day of sadness, shock and fear.
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